Chinese phone call breaks with tradition

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Genuine corporate news from Davos is as rare as a smile from a Swiss riot cop
there. So hats off to Wong Wai Ming, chief financial officer of Lenovo
Group, for letting slip yesterday that the Chinese PC maker is looking at
acquiring Research In Motion.

His comments have been taken seriously not just because Lenovo, whose
acquisition of IBM’s PC division in 2005 has been a huge success, has form
in this area. It is because RIM’s chief executive, Thorsten Heins, while
focused on next week’s launch of the Blackberry 10, has made clear all
strategic options are on